Say Yes and Move: A Throwback ft. Natalia Paraskevopoulou and Filippo Ricci

Two careers built by saying yes when most people said no.Natalia Paraskevopoulou, Head of Wind Business Development for EMEA at LightSource BP, discovered renewables in a classroom in Athens in 2004. She went on to move to Johannesburg as a 20-something woman in a field dominated by men, earn respect on construction sites by physically doing the job, and build a career that now spans Greece, South Africa and the UK.Filippo Ricci, General Manager and Country Lead for Italy at Recurrent Energy, fell into renewables through a friend asking for help in Bologna. He ended up developing markets in Chile, Egypt, Jordan and Cameroon before he was thirty.Two different paths with the same lesson at the end of both of them.In this throwback episode Tom revisits two of the most popular conversations from the REM archive and brings them together for the first time.What they cover together:Why the best careers in this industry are rarely plannedWhat working across radically different cultures actually teaches youWhy saying yes to the uncomfortable thing is the common thread in almost every success storyWhat the Italian and European renewable markets look like heading into the next phase of executionAnd why the energy transition only wins if it saves people moneyLeadership, people, and why community inside a team matters more than most leaders admitThe Renewable Energy Movement Podcast is powered by Kigyo.